presented by Henning Bochert The entertaining plays by Canadian playwright Nicolas Billon provide surprising plots and smart dialogues. Apart from their entertaining value, his texts often feature another characteristic: he employs other idioms than his working language English. These languages then introduce a certain exotic… Read more
The new board
On occasion of the members assembly on 04 September 2021, a new board was elected for Drama Panorama for the coming two years. This consists of the following members: Henning Bochert Charlotte Bomy Anna Galt Barbora Schnelle Karen Witthuhn Daniel Brunet was invited to act… Read more
Reading: Mon Lou adoré
On 2 July, 2021, the winner of the Apollinaire translation contest by the German Translators Fund (DÜF), the FAZ newspaper and the Institut Français will be celebrated. Among other programme items, Drama Panorama will present excerpts from submitted translations in a reading. These will be… Read more
Lachende Bestien – a concert talk
14.06.2021 at 5pm – Live stream on the Ballhaus Ost website, Berlin Productions by the Prague theatre ensemble Lachende Bestien usually take a critical view of capitalism and a world that creates exploitative systems by default. The group was scheduled to present their celebrated Brecht… Read more
Depressive Children give a guided tour through Prague’s cult theatre space Venuše ve Švehlovce
07.06.2021 at 5 pm – Live stream on the Ballhaus Ost website with audience Q&A Available for viewing on www.ballhausost.de until end of June. The Depresivní děti touží po penězích theatre group (‘depressive children longing for money’) was scheduled to present their production The Fall… Read more
How are the independent theatre communities in Berlin and Prague holding up?
A discussion with Prague and Berlin theatremakers from the independent theatre communities and representatives of PAP Berlin and Nová síť Prague
YAYATI by Girish Karnad
PHANTASMAGORIA by Deepika Arwind
Mehrosh, a celebrated student activist has been invited to an isolated house in the middle of a forest to take part in a debate with a powerful political adversary from the ruling party. It’s a chance to make her voice heard. Fearful of the coming… Read more
A look back at SCHUDOMA: Ich bin zu Hause
Schudomastraße is located in Berlin-Neukölln, in Bohemian Rixdorf, where the first Protestant refugees from Bohemia came in 1737 to escape persecution in their home country. The Bohemian Brethren community still exists there today. The street is named after the 19th-century local politician Johann Schudoma. We… Read more
Reduced price double membership with VTheA
Drama Panorama: Forum für Übersetzung e. V. and the Verband der Theaterautor:innen e. V. (VTheA – the Association of Theatre Authors) have agreed to reduce the cost of membership for any member of both organisations. We hope this will make it easier for writers and… Read more